12 Eleven

Commoner.

Plain.

And annoying as hell.

That was Shun's first impressions to Remoa.

And just like this village Remoa mirrored the life of every people living here. Contented with the simplest thing that the world could offer.

After the guards that supposedly live here with him left without a word Shun stood frozenly in the entrance of village. Ofcourse he knew that would happen, his naive and kind mother was deceived again by his father claiming that it's for the best to let Shun recover from his illness by sending him to a village that took days of journey away from the capital of Qui.

His only plan to come back at that manor is to wait for a carriage to pass by even though it seems impossible. Walking would do no good as his body is still weak from his illness.

Clenching his fist due to frustration shun take a deep breath to calm his nerves and bring peace to his whole body.

But even though he acts older than his actual age deep inside Shun's confidence were starting to crumble.

How long it would take for his mother to visit him?

Does she even think of him?

As questions of doubt started to fill his head and make him dizzy that's when Remoa first appeared to his life.

Her round black orbs staring at him with intense curiousity.

"Are you here to buy cows milk?"

She asked and started circling him around like a dog sniffing a stranger.

"Remoa!"

The girl stopped at her weird actions and looked at him strangely before averting her eyes to a bunch of kids around towards them.

"Whoa! Is he a foreigner?"

Shun for the second time found himself being the circled by the folks living here.

"He has funny clothes"

"weird smell"

"he looks like a crook "

He's pissed and hungry.

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After being tormented by the kids at the entrance of village an old couple finally showed up and shooed those kids out of him.

And as expected the couple invinted him to their home. Along the way Shun notice how that girl who first saw him still kept following them.

The old man who called himself Grandpa Dean noticed his continiously glancing at their back and saw Remoa silently following them.

"That's Remoa"

He said and pointed out the girl that is few steps behind them.

"She lives in that house beside the lake—that house"

Following the direction of his fingers Shun saw an old brick house at the brink of collapsing.

Noticing the changes in his expression the old man chuckled and sigh.

"That girl like you just suddenly appeared here two years ago"

"all by herself?"

"Well you're also alone"

The man last word caught him Offhanded. But there's something more that make his curiosity perked up aside from the story that Dean told him.

While the old man is still speaking about the life of Remoa he still steal some glances at his back and noticed that there's no changes at the pace either the expression of the seven year old girl.

"Hush Dean! Stop talking about the poor girl's life"

The old woman yelled to Dean that's about to defend himself when they stop into a front of a normal looking house that Shun's assumed to be their's.

The two started to walk inside as Shun stared at them. For some reason he felt like he was frozen on his spot, he's nervous and certainly he's afraid.

"Are you going or not? Grandma Dora and Dean are good people"

Not expecting the little girl to stop and talk to her Shun decided to just ignore her remarks when Remoa talk again that startled him.

"If i was in your spot and they offered me a home to live with even though they bad I'll accepted it ,if it meant i'll no longer be alone because brother you really look like that you needed someone right now"